TeenLife helps parents, high school and middle school students, and educators find hundreds of opportunities for teens, including student programs such as summer programs, community service, volunteer openings, after school activities, vacation week programs, gap year programs, job & internship resources, and local events.

" Incredible stories from our world Discover amazing human stories from around the world through television and radio clips from BBC programmes such as Human Planet, Amazon with Bruce Parry and Tropic of Cancer. Human Planet Explorer enables you to browse a selection of clips that showcase man's relationship with the natural environment."

"Wrong. Libraries are feeling the same kinds of pains - call them paradigm-shift pains - as many other institutions and businesses face in this globalized, digitized age. But they're evolving and adapting with the times"

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The Kids' Lit Quiz is annual literature competition for children aged 10 to 13. It puts readers onto the stage and lets them compete for fantastic prizes. The quiz has heats in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Canada, USA and China, winning teams qualify for national and world finals. The Kids' Lit Quiz is not for profit and run entirely by volunteers.

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"The Foreign Relations of the United States series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication. The series is produced by the State Department's Office of the Historian and printed volumes are available from the Government Printing Office."

Take a journey every Thursday night as DOC ZONE explores the major stories of our time. Around the corner, around the world, our cameras bring viewers a sweeping panoramic view of what matters most to Canadians.

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.

On October 21, the top videos selected by the YouTube Play jury were revealed and celebrated at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The videos, which can be viewed below and on youtube.com/play, will be presented at the Guggenheim Museums in New York, Bilbao, Berlin, and Venice on October 22-24, 2010. They comprise the ultimate YouTube playlist: a selection of the most unique, innovative, groundbreaking video work being created and distributed online during the past two years.

Librarians wear many hats at one time. Besides managing their space, they also organize events, reach out to the community and enhance the feel of the library, making it a timeless treasure that is making a major comeback. Libraries now stock DVDs new and old, the latest bestsellers and magazine and newspapers that we can't always find at our local stands. Oh and if that wasn't enough for you, did we also mention it's free?

Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. There are now nearly 700 maps. Maps 1-366 are also available as PDF posters. Use the menu above to find a map of interest. To learn a little more about this and other map projections read this: Worldmapper and map projections. We recently added a new series of maps of the world's population using a new mapping technique: Worldmapper Population Atlas

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Independent Teacher is an electronic journal that publishes articles on curriculum and pedagogy, across all grades and disciplines, of particular interest to independent school teachers. Our goal is to be a forum in which educators can share and discuss ideas and methods. We publish two issues each year, November and May.

"The era of the Web browser's dominance is coming to a close. And the Internet's founding ideology-that information wants to be free, and that attempts to constrain it are not only hopeless but immoral- suddenly seems naive and stale in the new age of apps, smart phones, and pricing plans. What will this mean for the future of the media-and of the Web itself?"

Here are some collections of information about the interplay between music and mathematics. I have collected a bibliography of such items as they float past me in cyberspace, and I went hunting for references in the reviewing journal Mathematical Reviews for mentions of music. In addition I am interested in a few other specific topics.

"Welcome to ESL Basics! My name is Andrea, and I am your guide for learning English. If you are just a beginner or if you have been speaking English for years, you will find that ESL Basics can help you along your journey. Be sure to click on "Videos" for daily vocabulary words. We are so happy to provide hundreds of ESL videos on our site. Plus, if you're an ESL/EFL teacher, you can check out helpful videos and job postings in our ESL/EFL teachers section. Visit often. We're adding content daily. Enjoy"

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